Perennial, New York, 2001, 1^st pr. thus.  ISBN 0-06-095951-7.  Trade soft cover, 363 pages including Notes on Sources, and Index.  Good; wraps show edge and cover wear, reading and corner creases, short tears at upper and lower front spine edges; binding sound; faded splash mark on fore-edge.  Interior clean and unmarked; small, old splash marks in fore-edge margins of first 70 pages; pages lightly tanned; colour and black & white photo plate sections.  ‘… concentrates on Elizabeth’s formative years – from her birth in 1533 to her accession in 1558 – and shows how the experiences of danger and adventure formed her remarkable character and shaped her opinions and beliefs.  From princess and heir-apparent to bastardized and disinherited royal, accused traitor to head of the princely household, Elizabeth experienced every vicissitude of fortune and extreme of condition – and rose above it all to reign during a watershed moment in history.’ (from rear wrap)